Dark Homecoming

by Eric Lustbader and Eric Van Lustbader

Book Overview

Mega-thrilling new Miami-based blockbuster from rejuvenated maestro. New setting, new approach, new launch from HarperCollins. Time for Nicholas Linnear's tough-guy friend Lew Croaker to take... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671003291
• ISBN13: 9780671003296
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Croacker gets by without Nicholas Linnear

Despite of the lack of exotic settings and having a more ordinary hero,this novel is still a page-turner, thanks to the complexity of its charachters. Croaker ends up being a much more intersting person than Nicholas Linnear (who is something of a demi-god by now), however, DH lacks the thrilling changes of location in time and space characteristic of former novels. It's on the whole a fine novel, but I would suggest Mr, Lustbader to improve his Spanish spelling and grammar, there are lots of mistakes which undermine the credibility of the Spanish-speaking characters.

ABSOLUTELY FABOLOUS

I have to say that this book is one of Eric Lustbader's finest. He does a good follow up of Lew Croaker from the last book Floating City. This book is worth reading and buying for all the Lustbader fans out there.

Good action book with multiple, complex plots.

Well written and suspensefull. You never quite figure out the characters until the end.

DARK HOMECOMING, TRULY SPELL BINDING

A brilliant read, as Lew Croaker sets out to deal with his own inner turmoil of a broken realationship with his Sister, and the idea of killing a man in cold blood, for a chance of life for his 15 year old Niece whom he has only just met! He has killed before but only in self defence, so can he overcome the churning of a Police officer's instincts. The books plot takes turns sharper than a Swiss piste. The Character of Lew is very well written, and has appeared previously in the Nicholas Linnear novels by Lustbader. This book gives us a more intimate view of his character. We are also shown a very vibrant and intense side of Miami that some of us may not know exists. There are several nail biting moments, where we don't know if the hero will strike clean ground. If you enjoyed the Linnear novels, and also enjoy a slight twist of Native magic thrown in then this is a good read.

A great read by a master talent

After fifteen years as one of New York's finest, Lew Croaker is warn out so he moves to Florida for some rest and relaxation on a fishing boat. Because of the danger from his last case (he lost a hand), Lew feels his mortality more than most people. He truly wants to reconcile with his sister Matty, who he has not spoken with in years. He wants to meet for the first time and spoil his teenage niece, Rachel. ..... However, the first meeting between Lew and Rachel is an unhappy affair. Due to a drug overdose, Rachel is in a deep coma, desperately in need of an immediate kidney transplant. Hope suddenly arises when attorney Marcellus Majeur offers a deal that Lew cannot refuse. The lawyer's clients, the Bonita twins, want drug lord Juan Garcia Barbacena dead. If Lew kills him, a perfectly matched kidney will miraculously appear. The Feds are also looking over Lew's shoulder as the government apparently want to take the twins down. Though he may not like it, Lew knows what he must do (and the readers must read the novel to find out what he eventually does). ..... Lew Croaker, the transplanted New Yorker, is a great character haunting the streets of South Florida as he struggles to do what is right while being squeezed between a rock and a hard place. DARK HOMECOMING is the usual action packed, violent filled, and fast paced thriller that readers expect from Eric Lustbader, but this time around the book has two major story lines that leave the reader weary from trying to follow them. This chutzpah-laden, audacious fan-girl recommends the novel be rewritten into two books because the sum of the superb parts does not equal a satisfying whole. Instead it leaves a what if sadness because either story line, in of themselves, were quite worthy of standing alone. .....Harriet Klausner